Capital One reviews

The RTO process has been a disaster. Not enough meeting rooms, not enough parking, horrendous traffic patterns to McLean office. They ask us every quarter via surverys how we feel about RTO and despite the overwhelming critical feedback, they have made no changes or concessions. Culture is heavily team dependent. Tons of red tape and bureaucracy. Expect to have to play politics to keep your job. Can work in tech just by exerting "influence" aka be likable. It's honestly your standard corporate job whether you're in tech or not. It's a bank. The company repeats every move Amazon makes because so many ex-Amazon people work here. The company takes advantage of the fact that we're so well-paid now by working us hard - unreasonable and unrealistic deadlines that all of us will panic about and prioritize until inevitably the deadline passes and we all adjust as we should have from the start.

-I was lucky and got an exemption to WFH after RTO started, but I heard lots of complaints from people who were forced to go in. -Management is a mixed bag. I managed to survive years of PIPs because my manager advocated for me, But then I got a new one, and they immediately threw me under the bus and PIP'd me while never mentioning my apparent "bad performance" in the months prior. A coworker of mine discussed my performance with said manager, and the manager agreed that I had been doing "great" before submitting said performance review. -Communication from the higher ups isn't transparent, Org changes happen every year, forget about knowing who your leadership is. -You aren't actually helping people with the work you're doing (if that matters to you). -Going above and beyond or trying something new isn't rewarded, which is demoralizing.